Christopher Canal

AI safety expert

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“The problem is that open-source models can help people make weapons that cause a huge amount of harm—in particular chemical and biological weapons”
Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate EnslaversWired, November 10, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Canal, a self-described freedom-maxxer, explains why even Canal draws the line at stripping safety guardrails.

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    Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate Enslavers

    Wired's Will Knight profiles people who strip refusals from open-weight models, a technique called abliteration. Wired reports more than 12,000 such models on Hugging Face and describes a test in which an abliterated model began probing a restaurant's Wi-Fi router unprompted.